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Responsorial Psalm – Ps. 54:3-4, 5, 6-8
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Gospel
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading from Mark we have Jesus predicting for a second time his Passion, Death and Resurrection. This second prediction, like the first, is followed by a blunderous...
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Responsorial Psalm – Ps. 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9
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Gospel
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This Sunday’s reading from the Gospel of Mark brings us all the way to Caesarea Philippi about 25 miles north of the
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Responsorial Psalm – Ps. 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
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In this Sunday’s Gospel reading from Mark, Jesus journeys to the
First Reading – Dt. 4:1-2, 6-8
Responsorial Psalm
– Ps. 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5Second Reading
– Jam. 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27Gospel Reading
– Mk. 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23This Sunday, after having heard from John 6 for the last five weeks, we now return to the Gospel of Mark. In the reading from Mark for the twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary time, coupled with the Old Testament reading from the book of Deuteronomy, we learn that sometimes we just don’t learn.
What we hear from the book of...
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Responsorial Psalm – Ps. 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21
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Gospel
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading from
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Responsorial Psalm – Ps. 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
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Gospel
In last Sunday’s Gospel reading from the extremely important sixth chapter of John, Jesus said, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for...
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Responsorial Psalm – Ps. 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
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Gospel
In John 6:1-15 Jesus miraculously fed the five thousand by multiplying a mere five loaves and two fish. The very next day the people that Jesus fed come to seek him out. Jesus, however,...
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Responsorial Psalm – Ps. 78:3-4, 23-24, 25, 54
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Gospel
Last Sunday we were introduced to the opening section of John 6, when Jesus performs a miracle in order to feed five thousand men. This Sunday’s Gospel continues the narrative of...
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Responsorial Psalm – Ps. 145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18
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Gospel
Introductory comments
For the next five Sundays of Ordinary Time (Seventeenth – Twenty-First) the Gospel readings will not be taken from the Gospel of Mark, but from the very important...
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Responsorial Psalm – Ps. 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6
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Gospel
In this Sunday’s Gospel, Mark tells us how Jesus has compassion on a great crowd, and how the people were “like sheep without a shepherd,” and Jesus goes on to teach them, and then feed the...
